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Aboriginal Women and Violence, by Audrey Bol‐ger. Australian National University, North Australia Research Unit, 1991. 104pp., tables, sources. ISBN 0–7315–11727.

Whitefella Comin’: Aboriginal Responses to Colonialism in Northern Australia. David S. Trigger. Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1992. xiv, 250pp., maps, notes, figures, plates, abbreviations and conventions, appendices, bibliography, index. $45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–521–40181‐X.

A ‘distant field of murder’: Western District Frontiers 1834–1848, by Jan Critchett Melbourne University Press, Victoria, 1990. xiii, 303pp., index, bibliography, appendices, photographs, maps. $34.95 (hardback). ISBN 0–522–84389–1.

A Picnic with the Natives: Aboriginal‐European Relations in the Northern Territory to 1910, by Gordon Reid. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990. xii, 220 pp., map, plates, bibliography, notes, index, illustrations. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–522–84419–7.

What is the Indian ‘Problem‘Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration, by Noel Dyck. Institute of Social and Economic Research (Social and Economic Studies No.46), St John's, Newfoundland, 1991.208pp., map, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–919666–72–8 (paperback).

The Queen's People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodatiyon among the Okanagan of Canada, by Peter Carstens. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1991. xxoii, 323pp., maps, tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. ISBN 0–8020–5983–0 (hardbound); 0–8020–6827 (paperback).

In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, edited by Doreen Jensen and Cheryl Brooks. UBC Press, Vancouver, 1991. 169pp., photographs, figures, tables, sources, (paperback). ISBN 0–7748–0403–3.

Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849–1989, by Paul Tennant. UBC [University of British Columbia] Press, Vancouver, 1991. xtn, 305pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 [Canadian] (hardback); $19.95 [Canadian] (paperback). ISBN 0–7748–0347–9 (hardback); ISBN 0–7748–0369‐X (paperback).

Fiji: Race and Politics in an Island State, by Michael C Howard. UBC [University of British Columbial Press, Vancouver, 1991. viii, 452pp., appendices, notes, .‐bibliography, index. $39.95 [Canadian] (hardback). ISBN 0–7748–0368–1.

Developments in Polynesian Ethnology, edited by Alan Howard and Robert Borofsky. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1989. ix, 373pp., bibliography, index. $28.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0–8248–1181‐X

Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society (Smithsonian Series in Ethnograpic Inquiry), by Lamont Lindstrom. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1990. xvi, 224pp., map, references, index. US$3750 (hardback); $US16.95 (paperback) ISBN 0–87474–3665–6 (hardback); 0–87474–357–5 (paperback).

Sepik Heritage: Tradition and Change in Papua New Guinea, edited by Nancy Lutkehaus, Christian Kaufmann, William E. Mitchell, Douglas Newton, lita Osmundsen and Meinhard Schusterl Crawford House Press, Bathurst, NSW, 1990. xxii, 666 pp., maps, diagrams, photographs, indexes (subjects, ethnic and geographic names, personal names), appendices, references. No price given. ISBN 1–86333–014–3 (hardbound).

Marquesan Societies: Inequality and Political Transformation in Eastern Polynesia, by Nicholas Thomas. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990, xoi, 256pp., glossary, figures, plates, bibliography, index. $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 0–19–827748–2.

The Pacific Theater: Island Representations of World War U, edited by Geoffrey M. White and Lamont lindstrom. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1990. xiv, 433pp., references, index, maps photographs. $44.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0–52284401–4.

The Fashioning of Leviathan: The Beginnings of British Rule in Burma (reprinted from The Journal of the Burma Research Society voL 29, no. 1, April 1939, pp.3–137), by John S. Fumivall, edited by Gehan Wijeyewardene. The Economic History of Southeast Asia Project and the Thai‐Yunnan Project, Canberra, 1991, ff, 178 pp., map, glossary, references, biographical notes. $20.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–7315–1196–4.

Rice, Rupees and Ritual: Economy and Society among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra, by D. George Sherman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xiii, 366 pages, maps, figures, tables, appendices, references cited, index. US $4250 (hardback). ISBN 0–8047–1666–8.

A Sinkala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka, by Jonathan Spencer. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1991. xi, 285pp., bibliography, index, maps, glossary. $38.00 (hardcover). ISBN 0–19–562495–5.

The Folk Biology of the Tobelo People: A Study in Folk Classification (Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 34), by Paul Michael Taylor. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. vii, 187pp., appendices, notes. US$10.00 (paperback). ISBN 047–000–00410–1.

Man on Earth, by John Reader. Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, 1990. 256pp., colour plates, bibliography, index. $19.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–14–10299–6.

The Animal Estate: The English and other Creatures in the Victorian Age, by Harriet Ritvo. Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Ringwood VIC, 1990. viii, 347pp., illustrtions, index. $16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–14–011818–7.

Graincollection: Humans’ Natural Ecological Niche, by Sergio Treviño. Translated by Rebeca San Martin‐Feeney. Vantage Press, New York, 1990. xv, 293 pp., colour plates, black‐and‐white illustrations, references glossary. US$18.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–533–09415–1.

A Protestant Legacy: Attitudes to Death and Illness among Older Aberdonians, by Rory Williams. Oxford University Press [Clarendon Press], Oxford, 1990. xi, 371pp:, tables, appendices, bibliography, index. $125.00 (hardback). ISBN 0–827736–9

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